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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 17 2007 10:44 Profile Homepage #63
That's enough, kids. It may look juicy and succulent, but have you ever wondered what parts of a pig spam actually consists of? Think of your health.

*waves staff*

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 written Wednesday, January 17 2007 07:11 Profile Homepage #46
All right, I *do* need to optimize the code somehow.

It's 85% finished - it started last night, and it is now evening here. Soon I'll have to start the update on the 16th if I want to have it ready on the 17th. And I have no idea why it's taking so long this time.

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 written Wednesday, January 17 2007 01:11 Profile Homepage #42
Well, he needs to hurry, because EndeavorBot is up to #3665 as I'm posting, and going at about 1 in 5 seconds. A bit slow today; I might have to try optimizing the code some time.

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 17 2007 00:50 Profile Homepage #11
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

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What do you think Dikiyoba is planning?
You are planning to use a magic spell that breaks down walls by shattering them with a volley of... trowels?

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 17 2007 00:46 Profile Homepage #22
Wow. It adds up to quite a bit when tallied up over the years.

I impersonated Imban (hell, we all did. :P ) and Alorael (*cough*). I couldn't resist making a few bad puns that were border-line vulgar.

A couple of years ago, I badly flamed a few people, and I still occasionally make a faux-pas (regarding upon mars' dyslexia, for example).

And between all the numerous locks and edits, I'm sure that an arbitrary one slipped in once or twice. I lock topics when I think they're completely useless, and my judgment is sometimes off.

But at least I resisted the brief temptation to edit all posts in this thread to say "****** that ******* you *********, here's the complete text of Harry Potter: [...] and besides that Jeff Vogel and all atheists should be BANNED! Go to disgusting.advertisement.page for FREEEE c14l1s; Can I now please have a key for Avernum 4?", and then lock it. And move it to Avernum Trilogy.

Just for the irony, you see.

But my good sense quickly won out.

[ Wednesday, January 17, 2007 00:46: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 16 2007 18:05 Profile Homepage #15
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Originally by Ephesos:

quote:
(quietly waits for the next episode)
Gah!

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You know, the funny thing is that even if the huge thread dies a classic UBB death, Aran will probably have a mostly complete copy of it anyway. Nonetheless, a nice show of initiative, Nioca.
I have a mostly complete copy of it, anyway. (Arancaytar taught me about paranoia well.)

Also, what was the longest topic ever? Dikiyoba remembers the What Are You Listening To Right Now? topic reaching a massive length but can't remember exactly what the massive length was.
A thousand and one post. Or should that be posts?

Anyway, the Episode 3 topic beats it. Dikiyoba, you are now in possession of the longest topic that has ever been posted, and that's something considering you didn't start it. :P

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 16 2007 16:58 Profile Homepage #1023
I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't.

*raises staff, gently touches topic*

Rest now and evermore.

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 written Tuesday, January 16 2007 13:06 Profile Homepage #37
No. Signatures are only displayed on thread pages, and having a robot look at the member's recent posts, download the thread page and find the signature is well beyond what I'm going to do.

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 16 2007 05:50 Profile Homepage #1
He's on to us. Terminate him.

Er, I mean, "My, the turtles have grown fat this year, weather-balloons and hamsters for all!"

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 16 2007 04:41 Profile Homepage #283
I think you misunderstood Thuryl's point.

Creating an alien psychology is not the mark of a bad writer.

Using "he's an alien, they have a different psychology" as an excuse is.

By analogy to fantasy, it's the "it works with magic" blunder of Science Fiction.

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 written Monday, January 15 2007 15:14 Profile Homepage #22
quote:
Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar:

Just something I noticed, when I have it sort all members in a list by total postcount, it sorts them from least to most. It sorts from most to least when you click it again, but I just thought it might be more convenient for it to do most to least first.
You and me both, but after an hour of searching, experimenting and complaining, the API still disagreed. It was either this or spend another week bypassing or rewriting the table API.

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 written Monday, January 15 2007 13:31 Profile Homepage #20
Even more evolution.

Thanks to the new generic changes&list functions, any field can be tracked or listed (provided it makes sense, ie. no tracking of member number changes). It is now possible to track homepage as well as karma vote changes, or list by last update.

[ Monday, January 15, 2007 13:34: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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 written Monday, January 15 2007 11:16 Profile Homepage #18
quote:
Originally written by Nioca:

Not really. :P

For the false information you have provided, you have apparently been removed from the list. :eek:

Though I am surprised that I was born September 8th, 2006. I'm not even a year old! :P
Stupid date fields getting mixed up. Fixed.

The gender feature is mainly my own speculation and observation (although I'm pretty careful not to jump to conclusions). There are only about 152 that are set. If you feel uneasy about this, I'll remove it from public view again as it was before.

Oh, and I didn't get the part about "delisting" until I saw that a few profiles weren't being updated anymore (among them Diki, Ephesos, Jewels, Saunders, Randomizer, Nemesis, and Tully). This is because their "last updated" timestamps are set to null, and so they're out of the updating cycle.

I can't say how this happened, but I forced a manual update on these, and they should be working regularly once again.

Edit: Of course! Last month, I was in hot water because the bulk updater got stuck on trying to update a spammer that Stareye had just deleted. So I rewrote the updater to automatically "delist" accounts it can't reach, so it doesn't get stuck in a loop.

Unfortunately, if the Spiderweb forum goes down for an hour or two, any member updated during that time will be delisted.

So I need to distinguish between "server unreachable" and "member not found" in parsing the response...

[ Monday, January 15, 2007 11:55: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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 written Monday, January 15 2007 08:11 Profile Homepage #14
That was bound to happen.

In other news, hordes of fluffy turtles were recently spotted near the Ermarian Network at the promise of aggregated insanity.

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 written Monday, January 15 2007 01:11 Profile Homepage #12
quote:
immuninizes
*ponders whether to point out its 'immunizes'*

*checks watch and realizes January 13th, 12 pm is long past*

*decides against*

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 written Friday, January 12 2007 16:13 Profile Homepage #2
Well, why shouldn't he?

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 written Friday, January 12 2007 07:16 Profile Homepage #7
In other news, The Pirate Bay plans to buy the Principality of Sealand and establish a data haven.

(Off-topic? It's my topic. :P )

Edit: Except Sealand already is a data haven in the most literal sense.

On another note, if I ever decide to leave Dreamhost, I know where the Ermarian Network will be moving to. Not that there is anything on it that would require freedom from regulation - but just the coolness factor. If I could afford it, of course. :/

[ Friday, January 12, 2007 07:47: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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 written Friday, January 12 2007 06:34 Profile Homepage #5
quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

What about participating in the RPs?
Touché. Ow.

quote:
I love how this topic is right at the top of the list with 0 replies and you're already two posts ahead of your landmark. True Aran style, that.
Erm. Every topic is right at the top of the list with 0 replies - right after it's posted.

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 written Friday, January 12 2007 03:13 Profile Homepage #0
The presentation I've been going on and on about is done (grade isn't decided yet, so there is still some suspense), and I have a little time to turn toward this place and all the Ermarian stuff again.

1.) Going to work with Logo to restore Polaris so we at least get the year-old content back.

2.) Going on a hunt through the Google cache, my email and keylogs to bring back a little of the data we lost - RPs and so on.

3.) Rework the Endeavor to work with the latest version of Drupal

4.) Extend the PPP a bit so it has nicer navigation and the PPP2 threads are included as well.

This is all fairly long-term; I still have craploads to do this semester. But there's a bit of respite so I can fix some of the more pressing things. :)

Edit:

Oh, and I seem to have forgotten completely about this.

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[ Friday, January 12, 2007 03:33: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, January 11 2007 02:46 Profile Homepage #54
Space and traffic is not a problem. But it will take a bit of time to set up, and I won't have time till the weekend - so I'll be on this by Saturday if you haven't decided for something else yet.

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 written Wednesday, January 10 2007 06:48 Profile Homepage #50
Here we go once more:

quote:
Originally written by Arancaytar:

quote:
Originally written by SNM:

Oooo. I'm very impressed.
You should get a cheap little website and just upload them all in one go. :)
[The obligatory...]

You would be welcome to a *.ermarian.net site with FTP access, completely free and devoid of ads.
(Heh. Now I've started *two* pages with the same post. :P )

To make it a bit easier to host the pictures in a nice website (and since you specifically asked for an album), I can recommend software like Gallery2. If you want, I could set up something like that.

Edit: Or yes, you can use Google. Doesn't matter, just pick an Evil Overlord out of the lot. :P

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 10 2007 04:11 Profile Homepage #21
I don't know many classical performers by name. Now, composers...

But of the few I do know, I'd have to go with Hélène Grimaud.

I also like Yo Yo Ma, but have heard only little music by him (one performance together with Bobby McFerrin).

Oh, and if they don't need to be alive, Glenn Gould.

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 10 2007 04:06 Profile Homepage #918
quote:
Originally written by Spent Salmon:

quote:
Originally written by Nioca:

Even the UBB has it's own element! Unbibium (UBB 122)

So if the boards collapse, all we have to do is combine Galactic Core with Unbibium and it will be revived!
Please. No. {On behalf of everyone}
Unibibium is hard to acquire. Instead, I recommend:

Iä! Iä! UBB'Nigurath fhtagn!

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 10 2007 03:46 Profile Homepage #23
This survey is badly formatted.

What is your favorite food?

Pizza.

What is your most hated food?

Savoy. It's a kind of cabbage.

Is there any circumstance under which you would eat your most hated food?

Starvation.

What is your favorite beverage?

Dihdyrogen Monoxide.

What? Coffee is not a beverage. Coffee is a religion.

What do you normally cook spur of the moment?

Rice. It's just about the only thing I can cook.

Are you a vegetarian?

Coincidentally, I had a vegetarian dish for lunch today. But normally, no.

What is your favorite dessert food?

Chocolate.

What is your favorite type of chocolate?

It's a kind of spicy chocolate with cinnamon, nougat and coriander, which is only available in winter. I still have a few precious pieces. Already looking forward to next christmas...

Other than that, chocolate coated coffee beans.

Favorite pizza topping(s)?

Hawaii (ananas and meat), or tuna.

Favorite breakfast?

Toast with cheese, orange juice, coffee.

Least favorite breakfast?

In the morning, I eat anything that doesn't run away. Provided it comes with coffee.

Favorite protein food?

Fish.

Favorite fruit?

Apple

Favorite vegetable?

Carrot

Favorite popcorn topping?

Sadly, they don't top popcorn here. It's either plain or with sugar. I take plain, although I'd give butter a try if I could.[/QB][/QUOTE]

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 10 2007 02:23 Profile Homepage #46
quote:
Originally written by Tyran:

quote:
Originally written by Randomizer:

Played since late 2000... Started playing Exile series on Windows 3.1
You were still using 3.1 in [i]2000?![/i]
What's so odd? I remember starting to use Windows 95 back in '98 - I was using 3.1 before.

And then moving on to NT4 in 2000... I even remember a time when I loved XP.

*shudders and washes hands*

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